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Florence Nwokoro’s dream for 2020 was to expand her business. She was making headway until October 19 when everything went up in flames. That day, her shop and many others at the Apo-Kabusa market in Abuja were torched by arsonists during the ENDSARS protests that shook Nigeria for weeks that month. The market was one of the worst scenes of violence as hoodlums attacked protesters, looted shops and destroyed properties estimated at hundreds of millions of naira.
Mrs Nwokoro said she had a foreboding of the mayhem. Her husband had had a dream the night before of her shop being vandalised. But they were helpless to stop it.
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Published 28 April 2021
Five suspected armed robbers were on Tuesday lynched in the Apo area of the Federal Capital Territory by residents.
The incident happened after the gang members robbed Point of Sale operators and traders around Apo Mechanic village.
It was learnt that the victims recognized the robbers and subsequently went after them.
After the robbery, the traders and residents reportedly mobilized in their numbers to the home of the robbers and killed two at Apo.
They later traced three other gang members to Kabusa and Waru areas where they were dragged out of their houses and also killed.